Animals in B/W for ZOO contest (10 img)

var1 · Jul 3, 2008

All winners in my opinion, and the mono conversion is a wonderful way of showing off these animals.

Cheers
Ron
Sydney Aust

Alfisti · Jul 3, 2008

Excellent use of shadows, I figure it helps to hide messy backgrounds too.

bravo.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

dportal said:
i take my hat off and bow. Really truly stunning, Richard.

What lens were these shot with? What was the set up?

dp

I used the K10D and several lenses with these.

The lemur was shot with the M50 1.7 and was hard work ;-)

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

Lacerta said:
Wow! Great images, I like especially that lemur (#7)
Do you sell prints?

You can have a bigger version for own use, so you can print them yourself? You can't use them for publication though, understandable i believe.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

rzarbo said:
Wow! Your photos always amaze me. I love them all but the cow is
priceless! You took a shot of a horse from a similar angle not long
ago, didn't you? I would love to see a shot of YOU getting the shot.
LOL

That would be indeed a funny shot i believe, the cow was flabbergasted with the black box so close in his face. Most have thought: Funny those humans...

Thanks a lot.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

jonska said:
Absolutely superb shots! They are also all good for different
reasons, which is amazing for a series of B/W shots. This means I
have no way of picking a "best". I do agree that the expression on
the cow's face is priceless.

One stupid question: is the shot of the dolphins and the moon some
sort of composite or what?

Indeed is a composite, was mentioned by the post though. Probably read over it ;-) Was awarded with "best edit".

It's a dolphin show shot in combination with a moon shot.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

JeffGoran said:
congratilations, they are very very nice and the PP is really well done
(I'm just not in love with the grey border)

Thanks, the grey border is a test I'm doing if color perception is better by using it. They are automatically generated by my Lightroom and photoshop setup. I guess color perception is a bit strange with B/W Images ;-)

Love the criticisms though, thanks.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

mhc_99 said:
Wow! I love B&W and these are wonderful. The leopard photo--best in
show indeed!

Do you do all your PP in Lightroom?

No these are PP in Photshop, the images in this thread http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=28392595 are all done with Lightroom though.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

Some consensus about the Cow i believe, but this particular image was "out of competition" because it isn't a ZOO animal.

How rude of them i think, to discriminate the COW population.

Thanks all for the comments, much appreciated.

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Jonson PL · Jul 4, 2008

Top class photos. And these are all yours ! I’m in shock; I thought that you were just showing the selected winning photos from a bigger exhibition, and that they were from multiple photographers.
Best zoo shots seen in the forum

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

Jonson PL said:
Top class photos. And these are all yours ! I’m in shock; I thought
that you were just showing the selected winning photos from a bigger
exhibition, and that they were from multiple photographers.
Best zoo shots seen in the forum

Yep they are all mine, thanks.

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Lacerta · Jul 4, 2008

Yes, of course, it would be great. You can e-mail me to:
hugo (dot) pentaxian (at) gmail (dot) com

Richard Smals said:
Lacerta said:

Wow! Great images, I like especially that lemur (#7)
Do you sell prints?

Click to expand...

You can have a bigger version for own use, so you can print them
yourself? You can't use them for publication though, understandable i
believe.

Let me know, how to proceed. Thanks.

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icexe · Jul 4, 2008

wow.. simply incredible! the camel and cow are my favorites, but they are all great shots. You deserved to win.

Anders Jacobsen · Jul 4, 2008

Prachtig - Well done
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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

I have send you an email with the lemur picture attached, have fun with it.

If something is wrong then just let me know.

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jl_smith · Jul 4, 2008

Hehe all great shots -- I like the leopard and cow the most

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zorobabel · Jul 4, 2008

Wow, great shots!
I like the lemur and the cow most!

hermanlee · Jul 4, 2008

Amazing B&W photos.

Richard, you really deserve to win.

My most favorite ones are #1 The Cow - This one has something on it that makes me want to look at it again and again.

2 The leopard - Great moment.

I really want to put them as my wallpaper.
Do you think I can get a copy too?
My email is in my profile.

Thanks again, Richard.
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DrugaRunda · Jul 4, 2008

wow! ... like all the others... really impressive, it's good to log in here on Friday night and see such great shots...

I like Ostrich, Cow and that last #10 guy the most, but all are great.

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Richard Smals · Jul 4, 2008

hermanlee said:
Amazing B&W photos.

Richard, you really deserve to win.
My most favorite ones are #1 The Cow - This one has something on it
that makes me want to look at it again and again.

2 The leopard - Great moment.

I really want to put them as my wallpaper.
Do you think I can get a copy too?
My email is in my profile.

Thanks again, Richard.
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I can send you one, which one do you wanne have? The Cow?

As stated earlier ...only for personal use.

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